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throat, and breast bright scarlet, as also the sides of the neck ; 

 remainder of under surface of body velvety black, except the lower 

 flanks, vent, and under tail-coverts, which are bright scarlet ; thighs 

 isabelline buff washed with red ; scapulars rather duller than the 

 back, with black centres ; lesser wing-coverts brown ; median and 

 greater coverts blackish brown, edged with whity brown ; bastard- 

 wing, primary-coverts, quills, and tail-feathers dusky brown, edged 

 with whity brown, the primaries with olive-yellow ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries isabelline-buff, the latter tinged with yellow ; 

 quills dusky brown below, isabelline along the inner web : " bill 

 black ; feet reddish ; iris dusky " {Heiujlin). Total length 4-5 

 inches, culmen 0'5, wing 2'4, tail 1"15, tarsus 0'7. 



Adult female. Similar to the female of P. orya\ and having a 

 yellowish eyebrow and a yellow tinge on the cheeks, but much 

 smaller in size, and rather whiter on the abdomen. Total length 

 4 inches, culmen 0'5, wing 2-'Ib, tail 1-15, tarsus 0"65. 



Hah. "West Africa, from Senegambia to the Gold Coast and the 

 Kiger. In ]S^.E. Africa from Southern Nubia to Shoa, Somali-Land, 

 and Unyoro. 



"West Africa. 



Senegambia (Z. Laglaize). 

 River Gambia. 



River Gambia. 



River Gambia {Capt. Moloney). 



Asliantee. 



Elmina, May 1872 {H. F. 



Blissett). 

 Deukera {H. T. Ussher). 

 Fantee. 

 Fantee. 



Fantee {H. T. Ussher'). 

 Cape Coast Castle, Jan., March 



((?. E. S.). 

 Cape Coast Castle, Feb., March 



( T. E. Buckley). 

 Accra {J. Smith). 

 River Volta {H. T. Ussher). 



River Volta {H. T. Ussher). 



Abeokuta. 



Abutchi, River Niger, Aug. 



(W.A. F.). 

 Rabba, River Niger ( W.A.F.). 

 River Niger. 

 White Nile. 

 Khartoum. 

 Senaar. 



Shoa {Sir W. C. Harris). 

 Ambukara, Shoa, July (O. 



Antinori). 

 Lado, Equatorial Africa {Emin 



Pasha). 

 Redjaf, July 6 {Etnin Pasha). 



Sbarpe Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Sharpe Coll. 



Purchased. 

 Shellev Coll. 

 Gould' Coll. 

 Sharpe Coll. 



Shelley Coll. 

 A. Swanzy, Esq. [P.]. 

 Shaipe Coll. 

 Sharpe Coll. 

 Shelley CoU. 



Shelley Coll. 



Shelley Coll. 

 Sharpe Coll. 



Shellev Coll. 

 F.Nicholson,Esq.[P.]. 

 Forbes CoU. 



Forbes Coll. 

 Mrs. Hevwood [P.]. 

 Sir Samuel Baker [P.]. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Sharpe CoU. 

 India Museum. 

 Shelley CoU. 



Shelley CoU. 



Shellev Coll. 



